Philip Nitschke ( /ˈnɪtʃkɪ/; born 8 August 1947) is an Australian medical doctor, humanist, author and founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International. He campaigned successfully to have a legal euthanasia law passed in Australia's Northern Territory and assisted four people in ending their lives before the law was overturned by the Federal government. Nitschke says he was the first doctor in the world to administer a legal, voluntary, lethal injection. Nitschke has complained that he and his group are regularly subject to harassment by authorities and has written on his personal mixed feelings on assisted suicide and the influence of religion on opposition to it.
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